Creating and Removing Elements
From time to time, we need to create new HTML elements so we can insert them into our document. We can use the jQuery function to create elements. This is especially useful when these new elements need events or other behaviors added.
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| | var input = $("input"); |
Although we could use document.createElement("input"); to accomplish this, we can call additional methods easily if we use the jQuery function.
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| | var element = $("<p>Hello World</p>"); |
| | element.css("color", "#f00").insertAfter("#header"); |
This is another example where jQuery’s chaining helps us build and manipulate structures quickly.
We also need to remove things from the DOM from ...
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